Thursday, February 11, 2010

OK, so like apparently thousands of people, I watched the video "Dippold and Hippoyard present some way to manipulate Zink paper and PoGo Polaroid." (click on the post title to see it).

I love my Pogo printer, it's not analog instant photography, but it's pretty cool. And I love the little prints it produces, as is. But it's always fun to do more artistic stuff once in awhile. Unfortunately, the four and a half minute video contains six techniques, and I personally found some of it hard to follow. Nonetheless, my searches for written information on Pogo manipulations were not successful (but damn, that video sure is!)

So I've tried to capture as much of the presented information as I can. It's listed below. Parts that I'm unclear on are marked with question marks. I'd more than welcome any corrections, additions, whatever.

OK here we go:

Choose a subject

Take a picture

Take Zink (tm) photo paper

Print with Polaroid Pogo (tm)

Destroy and Create

01. Transfer Water + Paper

Soak print 30-40 minutes

Blow with hair dryer (?)

Peel off top layer (orange-ish) with tweezers

Place layer on watercolor paper

Press with damp sponge (?)

02. Transfer Water + Paper

Soak print 80-90 minutes

Place entire print face down on watercolor paper

Press with damp sponge

Blow with hair dryer on both sides of watercolor paper

Peel off backing paper and layers so that top layer is left on watercolor paper

(not shown!) Peel off blue layer??

Wet watercolor paper and orange layer with damp sponge

Place (very fragile) blue layer on top of orange layer

Use tweezers to straighten out

(Strange flash of some other picture at 1:47, WTF?)

03. Print & Play Water + Sponge + Fire + Wire Brush

Yeah, I got no idea exactly what is going on here.

(Another flash of some other picture at 2:21, WTFF?)

04. Print & Play Sandpaper + Acetone Fire + Pyrograph

(from Wikipedia: Pyrography is the art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object such as a poker. It is also known as pokerwork or wood burning.)

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